My sixty-first podcast is up. In this shocking episode, I visit the home of Chris Sells and we make up a topic for the show! I suggested we talk about what programming will look like in 15 years, and Chris countered with the suggestion that we chat about the LAST 15 years first, then the next 15. We have a blast when we chat, so this show went long, almost 50 minutes, so we cut it in half so as not to waste the listeners time. Chris had a bit of an allergy to me and coughed a few times and we weren't able to fix the sound, so forgive me (and Chris) ahead of time.

Part Two will be posted tomorrow so you don't have to wait a week.

Next week I'll be at Mix, and I'll have an interview with ScottGu about Silverlight as well as some other surprises.

Telerik is a new sponsor. Check out their UI Suite of controls for ASP.NET. It's very hardcore stuff. One of the things I appreciate about Telerik is their commitment to completeness. For example, they have a page about their Right-to-Left support while some vendors have zero support, or don't bother testing. They also are committed to XHTML compliance and publish their roadmap. It's nice when your controls vendor is very transparent.

As I've said before this show comes to you with the audio expertise and stewardship of Carl Franklin. The name comes from Travis Illig, but the goal of the show is simple. Avoid wasting the listener's time. (and make the commute less boring)

Note that for now, because of bandwidth constraints, the feeds always have just the current show. If you want to get an old show (and because many Podcasting Clients aren't smart enough to not download the file more than once) you can always find them at http://www.hanselminutes.com.

I have, and will, also include the enclosures to this feed you're reading, so if you're already subscribed to ComputerZen and you're not interested in cluttering your life with another feed, you have the choice to get the 'cast as well.

If there's a topic you'd like to hear, perhaps one that is better spoken than presented on a blog, or a great tool you can't live without, contact me and I'll get it in the queue!

About Scott

Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

Please give some consideration to dumping Carl and just doing a Scott & Chris show each week. The episodes where you and Chris get together are BY FAR the best episodes you've done.

-Tim

Tim

Tuesday, May 01, 2007 3:20:16 AM UTC

Hey Scott,

This episode was really cool to listen to. I was just listening to the episode of DNR with Rory and yourself when you stated that no-one ever comments on your blog so I thought I'd try and fix that. Granted that was 2005 and times have likely changed.

What would be really cool for to do with a later episode would be to fake a conversation from 15 years in the future between yourself and Chris, talking about developing with "that .NET thing, remember that?". Step forward in time and look back at some of the things which we will get rid of. What is happening right now which will be remembered in 15 years?